John Pagett was mentioned in the 18 July 1722 will of his father Edmund Pagitt. John was to receive “one hundred acres of Land being more or less scituate lying & being in the County of Essex Begining at a white oak standing by or near a branch that doth proceed out of my Spring branch, and runing through a plantation that did belong to my Son Edmond & so runing to a red oak standing near the line that parts my Land and Thomas Gutterges & so along the said Line Westerly to a swamp called the Tobacco house Swamp and so down the sd Swamp to the white oak it first began”. He was also to receive one shilling. The will was proved 20 November 1722. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 4, pages 2–3.]